Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
("Within a Budding Grove")
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Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
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The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
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